Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-13
THE CITRUS FAIR.
MORE ABOUT EASTERN WINTER
AND REPULSIyE COLD.
The Record. Unions" Bulletin of
California Weather and Citrus
Fair Papers-Notes-Etc
CHICAGO, January 5, 1887.


CHICAGO, January 5, 1887.
EDS. RECORD UNION: To keep your
readers posted as to the progress of the ex-
hibit of citrus fruits in this city, must
write you frequently. devoted portion
of my last letter to the delectable weather
existing here, and will only say now that
since.my last writing we have experienced
another phase of its peculiarly changeable
character. The intense cold weather here
kept most people in doors since Sunday. l
find, by comparison of the temperature
here on Monday morning last with that of
Sacramento, there was difference of $50
that is, it was 83o colder here than in your
city. From l4o to 30 below zero is COM
mon here. Icicles form on mems boards
in the streets, and their respirations go up
in clouds like the puns OF steam
from locomotive. Those ladies who
must go on the streets wear heavy
wells to keep out the icy blast.
Water pipes freeze and burst and then we
get change. A raw southwest wind last
night brought driving snow-storm from
that direction, which by this morning had
turned around for a variety and came from
The northwest, and the wind means dis
mally around the chimneys, and signs and
shutters swing to and fro, creaking coldly
in the freezing blast, and during all this
yillainous weather, one of the most strik-
ingly attractive, and wonderful features in
Chicago is the
REcoRD-UNIoN's CALIFORNIA WEATHER bull
LETIN,
Which occupies conspicuous position in
the Citrus fair The dispatches received
each day from the RECORD UNION and dis
played in this manner, showing the highest
and lowest temperature of the day at Sac
ramento, Red Bluff, 0roville and New
castle, is one of the most eloquent pleas
for Central and Northern California and
successful pieces of work, in connec-
ton with the luscious display, that
could possibly be devised. These have
been bulletined in the afternoons or even
ings, and with the thermometer all the way
from zero to 200 below, on the outside of
the exhibition hall, and the attractive show
of beautiful oranges, lemons, lines, etc,
within, were accompanied with such
bulletins as this displayed upon the
RECORD UNION bulletin board-giving the
same day temperature, thus:
Sacramento-Lowest $50, highest so.
Red Bluif-Lowest 43o, highest $50.
Oroville-Lowest 80. highest 6lo.
Newcastle-Lowest 400, highest $50.
These dispatches have had in themselves
powerfully convincing influence.
In addition to this, the admirable semi
tropical illustrations in the great Citrus
Fair edition of the RECORD UNION, which
are here for the visitors, give special point
to these records of your California sum-
mer in our ice-bound frozen mid-winter,
and the exhaustive descriptions of fruits,
varied productions, climate, soils, ETC., with
which the twelve pages of the Citrus Fair
RECORD UNION edition are so effectively
filed attract constant attention and
anxious demand.
THE CITRUS FAIR
Is progressing very favorably, and great
good will come from it. The hall is not
large, but well located. 1t is narrow, but
very deep, and the fruits are displayed on
either side in an artistic manner. Great
credit is due the gentlemen
who are here with the exhibit. J. J.
Morrison had his fruit from Placer county
arranged in fine style. l gave him one of
my two men to assist him in sizing the
oranges and arranging the display. Mr..
Morrlson's long residence in California and
his familiarity with fruit-growing renders
him eminently qualified to display the pro-
ducts of the Golden State. Too much
praise cannot be extended for his efforts
/ ON morning till night explaining to pee :
PIE concerning the products, and why the
citrus belt in California is not confined to
the southern part of the State.
r. 3. Blowers is also making his indel-
lible mark as an a No. l single-handed
talker He stays constantly with the Yolo
exhibit, and with his fine collection of
Photographic views contributes much to
the pleasure and profit of the visitors.
Messrs. p. E. Plat and E. J. Gregory are
here, there and everywhere, all the time
actively promoting the welfare and details
of the great enterprise, and have shown
themselves to be eminently the right
men for the important trust reposed in
them, in connection with the present ex-
hibition being so successfully conducted.
Mr. McClatchy is as busy as a bee, and
looks out for the welfare of the paper he
represents.
Washington Porters voice can be heard
in the hall every day while he meodiously
explains to the lady visitors the beauties of
our glorious climate.
All the gentlemen from California are
walking, living, breathing evidences of the
healthfulness of the Golden State, from
Van Arman's rotund body of 220 pounds,
to that of Mr.. Platt's, which tips the beam
at modest $50 avoirdupois.
| have distributed at least 1000 compli-
mentary tickets for the fair, and each of
the gentlemen named have done the same.
Most of these tickets have been, or will be
used, during the present week, if we do
not get
ANOTHER cold WAVE"
We get now about Two a week, and each
one lasts three days, so there is not much
margin for good weather 1t is to be re-
opened here three weeks earlier. Arriving
as it did when the weather was terribly
cold the fruit had to be handled with ex-
treme care, or it would have been utterly
worthless. | hope that next season an
earlier display will be made simultane-
ously with that in Sacramento.
This is an immense city, having nearly
100000 people. and thousands of them
wish to leave this bleak land for our land
Of sunshine and flowers.
SPREADING THE FACTS.
l am flooding the Northwest with the
Citrus Fair papers, sending hundreds of
them throughout Michigan, Ohio. Indiana
and Illinois, and in such manner as to
have them fall into the hands of the farm
ers. California has large ard populous
country from which to drain people, and
there is no need of any effort to secure a for
eign immigration. We can get our Ameri-
can population as much as desired. shall
probably send into Northern California this
winter thousand people, who will be able
to purchase land and become a part of the
permanent producing population of the
State. Yesterday interviewed TIE repre-
sentatives of twenty-five families, who in
tend going out 10 your valley this month.
go out to northern Illinois tomorrow, to
meet ten others who have written me for
information, over in Michigan. Ny printed
matter sent out has stirred up several who
desired to come to the golden country.
THE HON. E. B. wAsHBUGSE.
One meets every kind of people in this